Substituent effects on boronic acid-modified benzyl viologens: Fluorescence quenching, glucose sensing and pKa studies

ORGN 383

Zachary Sharrett, sharrett@chemistry.ucsc.edu, Soya Gamsey, Jonathan Fat, Dan Cunningham-Bryant, and Bakthan Singaram, singaram@chemistry.ucsc.edu. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Boronic acid modified benzyl viologen quenchers containing electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents were synthesized and evaluated for their quenching ability and their ability to sense glucose. The pKas of these compounds were determined via potentiometric titration and were correlated to their spectroscopic behavior. These compounds were also used to sense other analytes.

 

Molecular Recognition and Self-Assembly
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 132, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006